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AARON S. '.HADLEY, 0F BOSTON, MasserenUsrnus.V Laim Pat/em No. 60,364, dated Decemberj1'1e,'isee.

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Be it known that I, AARON S. HADLEY, of Boston, in the county of Su`olk,`and State of Massachusetts,

have invented a new and useful o1' Improved Dish Mop; and do hereby declare the same to be fully described in the following specification, and represented in the accompanying drawings,of which- Figure 1 is a side elevation, and- -Figure 2 a longitudinal section of it. Figure 3, a side View, and Figure 4 a vertical section of the mop handle.

The common method of making a dish mop 1s to form the head of its handle with a groove` or channel extending around it, the brous material Por masses ofv yarn being laid around the head and secured into its groove by a binding or cord wound upon the mass of filaments and in the groove. This `mode of making the mop leaves it without Vany of the fibrous material or masses of cotton yarn projecting from or outI of the lower end of the handle, in which case such lower part of, the handle is liable to be exposed, so as to be brought into contact with an article while it may be in the a'ct of being washed by the mop.

In my improved mop I have an internal or auxiliary mass of the fibrous material to project from the lower end of the mop head and be surrounded by the main mass or body of the, said material, and I form the head of the mop handle tubular, or with a socket to'ex'tend up into it a short distance, or about one half its length, such head being cylindrical. I` also make a series of holes through the periphery of the tubular-part, and furthermore, I make other holes laterally through the solid or upper portion of the head; and these last named holes I so arrange that those of one set of them may be at or 'about at a right angle withthos'e of the next adjacent set. The fibrous material is to be drawn through each ot' such holes and extend in Aopposite directions from it, portions ofthe material being drawn through the peripheral holes into the chamber or socketof the handle, and

made to extend out of or beyond its mouth, so as to constitute an auxiliary mass or body of the fibrous material projecting from each mouth or the lower end of the handle, and being surrounded by other portions of the mass. In the drawings, A denotes the handle, of whicha is the cylindrical head, and b the socket made therein. The peripheral holes of such socket are shown at c c c, the other holes, or thosegoing through the upper` part of the head, a, being exhibited at d d and OZ d. Through each of such holes a mass of yarn or fibrous material` is to be drawn, it being made to extend in opposite directions from and to some distance from the hole. Each mass is to tightly iit its hole, so as to be retained therein by friction. The portions constituting the auxiliary mass or mop are shown at C, the remainder of them which makes part of the vSurrounding mop or mass being exhibited at D. These latter in turn are Surrounded bythe portions which are carried through the several series material extended from the periphery of the head of such handle, as set forth, n

of holes, d d, and Ol d', the collection of such portions being marked' E.

described.

A mop constructed on my improved plan is much superior to one made in the oldkway, as hereinbefore I claim the combination and arrangement of the auxiliary or internal mass of the brous material C, pro' jecting from the end of the socketed handle A lwith such handle, an

A. VS. RADLEY.

Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY, F. P. HALE, Jr.`

d either or both the masses, D E, of iibrous. 

